Wes Maldonado: Data Junkie

Went camping this weekend in Packwood, WA which is near the southern edge of the Mount Ranier National Park. Enjoy this picture of a random waterfall taken by my super kick ass girlfriend Jodi.

I have no idea if this will ever be useful to me, but I’m glad it’s out there.

sedge of bitterns siege of bitterns chain of bobolinks wake of buzzards brood of chickens flock of chickens peep of chickens brood of chicks […]

Last night I was laying in bed drifting off to sleep when BAM! I was blinded. The ceiling fan light was now on at 100% brightness and the fan was spinning up. This isn’t the first time I’d noticed that something might’ve be askew. I’ve come home to find the […]

The Braidy Tester put his STAR East presentation online in this PDF.

He has written about this before in this post titled Hallmarks of a Great Tester. Below is the list of things he feels makes a tester great. How are you at these items?

Is devious Is curious Is excited by bugs Knows there are always […]

Here is a taste of what I’ve found interesting in the past couple of weeks.

From Agile Testing:

Selenium test creation and maintenance with make_selenium.py SSH tunnelling with Putty

From Black Belt Productivity:

Black Belt Series: bsag, from But She’s A Girl The Importance of the Two Minute Rule

From Brad Appleton’s ACME Blog:

Pragmatic Multi-Variant Management […]

The application that I’m working on politely emails me when things go wrong and normally this is great. However, let’s say you leave it running all night and an error happens 5 times per second for 8 hours, not so good. So, for the past hour my CPU has been at 100% as […]

High Moon Studios, part of Vivendi Games, is a game developer currently working on titles for next-generation consoles. The company is founded by game veterans who are passionate about creating compelling, original entertainment experiences. High Moon is best known for Darkwatch (www.darkwatch.com), the hit console game based on original I.P. created by company […]

Tried using VS 2005 for Web Applications and got confused? The VS 2005 Web Application Project v1.0 is here to help. What does it do?

VS 2005 Web Application Projects support the same project, build and compilation semantics as the VS 2003 web project model. All […]

“There aren’t many people in this world that trump an appearance by Tom Cruise.” Nina Morean, Mall Manager

I grew up about 10 miles outside of Aberdeen so this “news item” caught my attention. I whole heartedly agree with Nina Morean: There aren’t many people in this world that trump an […]

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